The MIT Concert Choir

The MIT Concert Choir is a choral group,
open by audition to both graduate and undergraduate students, and to
members of the MIT community. The Concert Choir works to create an
environment where student singers can learn, perform, and contribute
to the MIT musical community. By bringing together singers in a
social, academic, and performance atmosphere, we hope to expose the
MIT community to a wide range of choral music literature and
history. Concert Choir can also be taken for credit
as 21M.401.

As
MIT’s large student chorus, the Concert Choir performs major works
from the standard repertoire each semester, as well as a variety of
shorter and lesser-known pieces. The Choir has a rich history
originating with the all-male Glee Club in 1884 and continuing with
the MIT Choral Society from 1923 until the formation of the Concert
Choir under John Oliver in 1989. William Cutter, who came to MIT in
1990 as John Oliver’s assistant and rehearsal pianist, assumed the
direction of MIT’s choral program upon Mr. Oliver’s departure in
1996.

In recent years, the Concert Choir has toured in Budapest, Vienna,
and Lausanne, and performed in numerous collaborations with the
smaller MIT Chamber Chorus, the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Wind
Ensemble, the choirs of Brown, Tufts and Brandeis Universities, and
the orchestras of Tufts University and Wellesley College. In 2002,
the MIT Concert Choir was invited to perform with the Boston Pops
under Keith Lockhart for MIT’s Tech Night at the Pops. Often
featuring the finest guest soloists along with student soloists, the
student singers of the group regularly expose the MIT community to a
wide range of choral music literature.